Africa

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are withdrawing from a 49-year-old regional alliance that has allowed goods and nearly 400 million people to travel freely across a tightly connected region.

Britain gave Rwanda hundreds of millions of pounds, even though no asylum seekers were deported to the Central African nation under the agreement.

The sport, in which you strap on a 30-foot kite and skim across the waves, is about to make its Olympic debut. Here’s where non-Olympians can give it a try.

About 400 Kenyan officers have deployed to Haiti as part of the first wave of a multinational contingent tasked with trying to restore order in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation.

The Biden administration is trying to get foreign companies to invest in chip-making in the United States and more countries to set up factories to do final assembly and packaging.

Dozens of activists say they were snatched from their homes or off the streets by hooded, armed men. Some are still missing, and the disappearances have unnerved a nation long seen as a pillar of stability.

The danger to migrants while crossing the Mediterranean is well documented, but an earlier phase of their trek, across the Sahel and the Sahara, is deadlier, researchers say in a new report.

After years of delay, millions of malaria vaccines are being supplied to children in Africa. Tens of thousands died waiting.

A new law in the West African country of Sierra Leone allows child brides to annul their marriages and be financially compensated.

An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land.

Two men claim to be the emir of Kano, an ancient kingdom in northern Nigeria. Their struggle for power and influence is feeding into a wider competition ahead of the country’s next election.

Suicide bombers killed at least 32 people in three attacks in a Nigerian city once controlled by Boko Haram. Women, said experts, are more likely to go unnoticed when carrying out terrorist attacks.

To accommodate a broad and diverse alliance of parties, President Cyril Ramaphosa increased the size of his executive team. Now the challenge is getting a diverse group of politicians to agree.

Three female attackers detonated devices at a wedding and at a funeral in a city once ruled by Boko Haram, emergency service officials said. So far, no group has claimed responsibility.

A fossil bed in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco is allowing new insights into the anatomies of arthropods that lived a half-billion years ago.

A devastating civil war is pushing the country toward a full-blown famine, according to the international body that measures hunger.

The demonstrations were held despite his withdrawal of the tax bill that sparked days of protests. Some activists, fearing more bloodshed, warned people not to march to the president’s official residence.

The court said his crimes had involved overseeing public floggings, torture and arbitrary arrests during a jihadist takeover in northern Mali in 2012.

Kenya, the fastest growing economy in Africa, is on the brink of a fiscal calamity. Across Africa, nations are spending more on interest than on health or education.

A day after at least 23 people were killed in demonstrations against a tax increase, President William Ruto withdrew the law that he said was necessary to avoid defaulting on the country’s debt.

At least five people were killed in clashes with the police that erupted after lawmakers approved tax increases that critics said would drive up the cost of living for millions.

Kenyan police faced off with protesters in the capital, Nairobi. Civic groups said that at least five people died.

Across the country, outrage over proposed tax increases drove Kenyans to the streets.

The police used live fire and tear gas on protesters who marched on the Parliament building in an attempt to stop a vote on a contentious finance bill.

Moscow has largely taken over the African operations of the paramilitary group, once led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed after leading an insurrection against Vladimir Putin.

France is facing deep anticolonial resentment across Africa, but has found a partner in Rwanda, which is embracing French influence despite years of acrimony.

The incident came months after another tourist was killed in Zambia when an elephant charged her group. One wildlife expert said the attacks were most likely “freak accidents.”

An injection given just twice a year could herald a breakthrough in protecting the population that has the highest infection rates.

There has long been anecdotal evidence of the wormy creatures taking to the air, but videos recorded in Madagascar at last prove the animals’ acrobatics.

Satellite and video evidence shows that thousands of homes have been razed and tens of thousands of people forced to flee a city in Sudan.

The shortage highlights a widening gulf in the standard of care for people with diabetes, most of whom live in low-income countries.

Darfur, the region of Sudan once synonymous with genocide, may be on the brink of a new chapter of horror.

For the first time since the fall of apartheid, the nation must rely on a coalition of rival parties to govern. Can they get along enough to pull the country out of its crises?

The government is trying to pass a finance bill in Parliament that would involve increasing taxes. Critics say it will raise the cost of living for Kenyans who are already struggling economically.

Methods such as hormonal implants and injections are reaching remote areas, providing more discretion and autonomy.

The Islamic State and Al Qaeda consider Africa ‘very fertile ground,’ said Christopher A. Wray, who is meeting with officials in Nigeria and Kenya.

The league has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to cultivate an immense potential fan base in Africa and develop future stars.

Researchers say the nearly mile-long swim was the longest by big cats ever recorded.

A new government led by the African National Congress gave Cyril Ramaphosa another term as president, though he faces challenges in Parliament.

Declan Walsh, the chief Africa correspondent for The Times, reported from a country where few journalists have gained entry amid a civil war.

UMkhonto weSizwe, which is led by Jacob Zuma, the populist former president, has asserted that the recent election was rigged and the results illegitimate.

After an overnight search, rescuers found the wreckage of the military aircraft that had been carrying Saulos Chilima and nine others.

People in Africa’s most populous nation are suffering as the price of food, fuel and medicine has skyrocketed out of reach for many.

A search is underway after the aircraft carrying Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people vanished.

As John Steenhuisen, who leads the second-largest party, negotiates for a place in the government, he must overcome perceptions that his Democratic Alliance favors the interests of white people.

American and French forces have been ordered out of several countries after a series of coups.

Videos showed paramilitaries opening fire on the village in what had been Sudan’s breadbasket region, causing the latest mass civilian casualties in a brutal yearlong war.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s party, the African National Congress, is seeking a broad alliance after it failed to win enough seats in last week’s election to form a government on its own.

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers.

A year of fighting has turned the once proud capital, Khartoum, into a charred battleground. Millions have fled. Now a famine threatens in one of Africa’s biggest countries.

President Paul Kagame led Rwanda out of the genocide, but has since dominated the country like a colossus. He is running for a fourth term after winning three elections.

A new party led by Mr. Zuma, a former president forced out over corruption allegations, helped ensure that the African National Congress fell short of an outright majority for the first time since the end of apartheid.

A look at the leaders who could shape the country’s future after the African National Congress’s poor showing in elections.

The director Daniel Oriahi is capturing the audience’s attention with his latest film, “The Weekend,” which will premiere at the Tribeca Festival.

Some South African voters welcomed the defeat of the African National Congress in last week’s elections, even as they remain wary of the country’s political future.

The African National Congress received less than 50 percent of the national vote for the first time since gaining power 30 years ago, setting the nation on an uncharted course.

Joseph O’Neill’s fiction incorporates his real-world interests in ways that can surprise even him. His latest novel, “Godwin,” is about an adrift hero searching for a soccer superstar.

As votes trickled in, the power and influence of the African National Congress, which has led the country for 30 years, appeared to be waning.

An archaeologist, he wrote widely on everyday life under the pharaohs and did much of his fieldwork at Amarna, considered the Egyptian version of Pompeii.

In a high-stakes national election, the African National Congress, which has governed for three decades since the end of apartheid, may lose its outright majority for the first time.

In pivotal elections on Wednesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa and his African National Congress party are struggling to keep the support of Black middle- and upper-class voters.

A record 51 parties are competing to unseat the long-ruling African National Congress in the national election on Wednesday. Here’s why it won’t be easy.

We spoke to South Africans who grew up in the three decades since the country overthrew apartheid and held its first free election about their lives and plans to vote — or not — in this week's pivotal election.

In Kenya, Revital Healthcare is manufacturing medical products that Africa needs to take charge of routine health care and respond to outbreaks.

The vote in 1994 was a time of hope — but in the weeks before, the country came close to the abyss. A photographer remembers what he witnessed.

The Bidens invited more than 450 guests, including Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Carol Moseley Braun, Melinda Gates, Lester Holt, LeVar Burton and Sean Penn.

President Biden welcomed President William Ruto of Kenya and said he intended to designate his country as a “major non-NATO ally.”

The White House is hosting President William Ruto of Kenya for a state dinner this week, an embrace that both countries urgently need.

A White House proposal to allow the billionaire Dan Gertler to sell off his assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo sparks a bipartisan rebuke.

With elections just over a week away, the political comeback of the former president has presented a major test for the country’s young democracy.

The U.S. ambassador said she was “very concerned” that Americans may have participated in what officials of the Democratic Republic of Congo called a failed coup attempt early Sunday.

When the director and crew of “Io Capitano” toured Senegal with their acclaimed movie, audiences responded with their life stories.

A deal to allow the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler to cash out his mining positions in the Democratic Republic of Congo has enraged human rights activists and some government officials.

Ousman Sonko, who served under an autocratic president now in exile, was found guilty of multiple counts of intentional homicide, torture and false imprisonment against citizens of the West African country.

New research shows the “upside-down trees” originated in Madagascar and then caught a ride on ocean currents to reach mainland Africa and Australia.

The East African country is preparing to send hundreds of police officers as the first wave of a multinational force aimed at stabilizing the chaos-ridden Caribbean nation.

Witnesses and human rights groups claim the West African country’s military killed more than 220 people, including women and children, in February. It was neither a mistake nor a one-off, they say.

Memory Banda’s battle, which she has been waging since she was a teenager in a village in Malawi, started with a poignant question: “Why should this be happening to girls so young?”

Spurred by his anger at the African National Congress, Mr. Zuma formed his own political party and is gathering support among voters aggrieved by the failures of South Africa’s governing party.

The Central African country’s incumbent president and his prime minister both ran. Shortly after the prime minister claimed victory, the president was declared the winner.

The four-story building under construction collapsed on Monday, killing at least eight people and leaving dozens of others missing.

At least 10 people were injured when a Boeing 737 passenger plane overran the runway at Blaise Diagne International Airport and caught fire, authorities said.

The authorities in Senegal said the incident involving the aircraft, a Boeing 737 that was flying to Mali, was under investigation.

Three days after the collapse of a four-story building that was under construction, rescuers were still combing through some 3,000 tons of concrete rubble even as signs of life faded.

More than half a dozen nations have pledged personnel to a multinational effort to stabilize Haiti, where gangs have taken over much of the capital, setting off a major humanitarian crisis.

Although a resident confessed to setting the August 2023 blaze that killed 76 people in a dilapidated building, a report found that officials had ignored warning signs for years.

Nine months after a coup in Niger, Mohamed Bazoum, an ally of France and the U.S., remains locked in the presidential residence, cut off from contact with anyone but his doctor.

Until now, key players had blocked the establishment of a court that could hold them accountable for atrocities like murder, rape and torture.

For years, activists and politicians have led discussions about whether disputed museum objects should go back to their countries of origin. At this year’s Biennale, artists are entering the fray.

A three-team race is deciding this year’s Premier League champion. The competition’s global reach means a significant portion of the world’s population is following along.

The heavy rains that pounded East Africa for weeks, killing hundreds, have spilled into the Masai Mara, one of Africa’s greatest wildlife national reserves.

The West African country said it killed Abu Huzeifa, a commander in an Islamic State affiliate who was involved in a 2017 attack in neighboring Niger that killed American Green Berets and Nigerien forces.

The Central African nation’s May 6 election appears to offer voters a choice. But it’s been masterminded, analysts say, to rubber-stamp the rule of the incumbent, Mahamat Idriss Déby.

A powerful paramilitary group has encircled El Fasher, the last remaining obstacle to domination of the sprawling Darfur region, raising alarm about mass killings if the city is taken.

Flash flooding sent a deluge of muddy water over an area in the Rift Valley region of southern Kenya.

Heavy rains have been pounding parts of East Africa for weeks, and the flooding has killed hundreds of people in recent days.

For the tens of thousands of asylum seekers in Britain, a new law brings the possibility of deportation to central Africa closer. We asked how it was affecting them.

We looked at how far South Africa has come in meeting its goals after 30 years of freedom.

She helped people fleeing conflicts in Vietnam, China, Kosovo and elsewhere around the world, and established the Washington office of the International Rescue Committee.

Downpours have killed at least 200 people and submerged homes and farms in Tanzania, Kenya and Burundi.